Slim Dusty - My Clinch Mountain Home lyrics

rate me

Far away on a hill to sunny mountain side

Many years ago we parted my little Ruth and I

From the sunny mountain side

She clung to me and trembled when i told her we must part

She said don't go my darling it almost breaks my heart

To think of you so far apart

Carry me back to old Virginia

Back to my clinch mountain home

Carry me back to old Virginia

Back to my old mountain home

I fold my arms around her leaned her head upon my breast

I told her I would wed her when I came back from the west

At my old clinch mountain home

In my hand I hold a picture of the old home far away

In the other one my sweetheart Im thinking of today

On the sunny mountain side

Carry me back to old Virginia

Back to my clinch mountain home

Carry me back to old Virginia

Back to my old mountain home

My mother's old and feeble my father's getting gray

I'm going back to Virginia and I expect to stay

At my old clinch mountain home

Carry me back to old Virginia

Back to my clinch mountain home

Carry me back to old Virginia

Back to my old mountain home

[From The LP Live at Tamworth August, 1973

Barcoo Bill]